Donna Sapolin explains, in business-magazine style, why “ballet is a microcosm of successful approaches to work.”
Tag: 11.18.13
A Yamomami Shaman’s View Of Us
In a new co-written autobiography, Davi Kopenawa, a shaman and spokesman for the indigenous Amazon group discusses his own life and his views about the white outsiders who first attacked and pushed his people, then celebrated them and made them into an international cause.
Russian Ballet Dancers Talk About All The Turmoil
The trial of a Bolshoi soloist for the acid attack on the boss, the sudden installation of a fired Bolshoi principal at the Mariinsky’s historic dance school, accusations of backbiting and bribery … Three of Russia’s top ballet stars (including Nikolai Tsiskaridze, the fired one) speak publicly about the mess.
Why Do Some Paintings Draw Such Outrageous Prices (While Others Don’t)?
A senior auctioneer and art specialist at Sotheby’s explains.
Björk Explains Television (As Only Björk Could)
“So all that’s on TV, it just goes directly into your brain and you stop judging it’s right or not. You just swallow and swallow. This is what an Icelandic poet told me. And I became so scared to television that I always got headaches when I watched it. Then, later on, when I got my Danish book on television, I stopped being afraid because I read the truth, the scientifical truth and it was much better.”
The First “Headphone Opera” Has Left One Train Station, Soon To Arrive In Others
Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities just completed an acclaimed run amidst the crowds at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, and the creators say several other cities, starting with Bordeaux, want the production staged in their railroad depots.
How The Venerable Oxford English Dictionary Is Changing
“Behind the updating and revising of the OED is another, much bigger story: the inexorable growth of English itself. At a conservative estimate, 1bn people now speak it as a second or foreign language, while the 375m for whom it is a mother tongue continue to mould their own varieties in ways that the dictionary’s original compilers could never have imagined. As such, the OED finds itself in the curious position of being a national institution called upon, almost by default, to assume the role of a global one.”
“Fixing” Tate Britain
“A rambling pile of high Victoriana, with a cartoonish PoMo extension and other well-meaning insertions, Tate Britain has long suffered from an identity complex, standing as a confused muddle of bits. Successive architects have each brought their add-ons, but few have spared much consideration for the whole – until now.”
The Depressing Numbers Behind The 2014 Whitney Biennial
“Lest we get too excited about what the museum is billing on its website as “one of the broadest and most diverse takes on art in the United States that the Whitney has offered in many years,” let’s look at some numbers.”
Should Charitable Foundations Throw Money At Detroit To Save DIA Art?
“The federal mediator in the Detroit bankruptcy is asking a group of at least eight local and national foundations to consider collectively contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to solve two of the most contentious issues in the case: municipal pensions on the chopping block and Detroit Institute of Arts paintings on the auction block.”